Flowers and Their Friends

How flowers and insects came to need each other, explained to children by a teacher who refused to talk down — “it would be very stupid indeed to try to read a book written in Arabic,” she begins, so look up every word you don't know.

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Glossar Y: Seedlet

Seed, n. The fertilized and matured ovule of a flower. Seed coat, n. The outer covering to a seed.

Seedlet, n. A little seed.

Sepal, n. L. separ, separate; one of the separate leaves that form the calyx.

Septimus, n. L. septimus, seventh; the name given in this book to a suppositional plant.

Sextus, n. L. sextus, sixth; a name given in this book to a suppositional plant. Shrub, n.

Silica, n.

A woody, branching plant, smaller than a tree.

L. silex, flint; a substance found very abundantly in the earth's crust. It is very hard, and when melted forms glass; it is found in solution in some springs and is taken up by certain plants and deposited on or near the surface.

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